The Big Blue Guitar Festival is the brainchild of Evan Binkley, the owner of Waldbaden Acres, who’s made homemade instruments ...

Carve the bamboo carefully to get the right shape and size for each part of the instrument. Use tools like knives or chisels ...

Humans have been banging out rhythms and singing melodies for as long as we’ve been around, from Paleolithic flutists to contemporary K-pop performers. So if you want to make music, the good news is ...

Homemade musical instruments don’t usually work out very well. I remember the experiment we all had to do with the rubber bands and the empty tissue boxes and finding the resulting sound, well, pretty ...